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Just days before University of Guyana (UG) workers were due to discuss agreements brokered by their unions to end a five-week long strike, the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Nigel Harris has called for...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) has agreed to a symbol for the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections.
Sources said that the symbol, obtained exclusively by Demerar...

The Ministry of Health voices it absolute consternation at the unethical and disingenuous exposure of private medical details, concerning selected government officials. According to the ministry, certain media outlets and personnel, in taki...

A Guyanese mother of a young child was arrested Sunday shortly before boarding a flight to New York after a search revealed that she was allegedly carrying more than two kilogrammes of cocaine, according to a senior drug enforcement agent. ...

Guyana has told Venezuela to keep its hands off its English-speaking neighbour's offshore oil exploration efforts, in the wake of objections by Caracas to a rig that is about to be dispatched to a concession by American oil giant, Exxon Mob...

People’s National Congress (PNC) member, Africo Selman resigned as a parliamentarian for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) two days before the law-making body was due to be dissolved to make way for general and regional elections. Gen...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Prime Ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper appeared Saturday in what seemed to be a canned interview that was calculated to cultivate support from women around issues of domestic v...

A five-week old strike by University of Guyana (UG) workers could end by next Monday that would see them getting an interim 10 percent salary increase as well as improved teaching-learning facilities and assurances that steps will be taken ...

GECOM, Georgetown, February 28, 2015 - In the interest of increasing the voter turnout of youths in Guyana on Elections Day, the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC) will be working in consultation and collaboration with the Guyana Election...

Fire of unknown origin early Saturday morning severely damaged a section of the Bartica Secondary School’s dormitory, but no one was injured and all of the students were accounted for, according to Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford. “I ...

A Mining Engineer of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), who was shot dead Friday afternoon, might have been carrying a large quantity of cash, according to usually reliable sources. Trevor Abrams was gunned down on the Diamond ...

An autopsy appeared to have cleared police and inmates of any wrongdoing in connection with the death of a man while he was in custody.Police said a post mortem examination conducted Friday on the body of Zaharudeen Razan of Cornelia Ida, W...

A number of policemen has escaped criminal prosecution for the death of a detainee because his wife failed to turn up to identify the alleged perpetrators, but several of them would be charged departmentally.“Due to her failure to attend th...

Digicel Guyana has announced the promotion of Kevin Kelly to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
Gregory Dean the current Chief Executive Officer has been promoted to Regional Chief Executive Officerwith responsibility for Guyana, A...

The Guyana government is yet to refund less than GUY$10 million in medical expenses to the family of Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Debra Backer who succumbed to cancer last year, even as government ministers and ruling party asso...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration will welcome votes from Amerindian hinterland and coastal riverain communities in exchange for the thousands of low-powered solar home systems that have been installed dur...

The involvement of the police or community police in the death of a detainee in hospital has been ruled out, a senior police officer said Wednesday. The officer said that as far he was aware no law enforcement personnel inflicted injuries o...

An eight year old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle and she was suffering from severe bleeding, authorities confirmed.The names of the child and the alleged perpetrator are being withheld to protect her identity in keeping with the Sexu...

Police were Wednesday morning again preparing to remove a barricade set up in front of the University of Guyana’s (UG) main entrance at Turkeyen by a breakaway faction of the students who insist on unrelenting pressure to force the administ...

The Ministry of Health’s Pharmacy & Poison Board on Tuesday seized a canter, filled with damaged and expired food items and goods, as they were being loaded onto the vehicle, to be transported for marketing purposes, the Government Info...

The Government of Guyana and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) has signed a loan agreement totalling US$32.16M for the strengthening of the environment sector and the Citizen Security Strengthening Programme, the Government Informat...

Now into their fifth week of industrial action the unions of the University of Guyana (UG) say staffers will not return to work without a written commitment from the university's administration. Recent talks have seen the administration as...

President Donald Ramotar on Tuesday finally announced the dissolution of Parliament, paving the way for general and regional elections on May 11, 2015.
Ramotar's failure to dissolve Parliament and announce the date at the same time had dra...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) did not consult the “rather loose” and unstructured Civic grouping before nominating Ambassador Elisabeth Harper as its prime ministerial candidate for the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections, ac...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Tuesday announced that its Prime Ministerial Candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, has resigned as Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “My information is that she has already done s...

Tension boiled over somewhat as police tu‎rned up Tuesday afternoon at the University of Guyana's (UG) main gate at the Turkeyene Campus to urge protesting students to stop blocking entry and exit.
Eventually, police and several students r...

University of Guyana (UG) staffers who are currently on strike have not been paid for the month of February. The university’s full-time academic and non-academic staff members are usually paid on the third Thursday of every month but last ...

An ex policeman was Monday morning- Mashramani- shot and injured on upper Regent Street, police said. Initial reports are that Otis Grant,39, and someone else had an argument and shortly after shots rang out.
Police later said in a stateme...

The United States (US) on Sunday- the eve of Guyana’s 45th Republic anniversary said it was looking forward to peaceful general and regional elections scheduled for May 11, 2015. “Your nation will hold national elections this year. I am con...

The driver of a car Sunday morning perished in an accident after he crashed into a culvert at Houston, East Bank Demerara. police said.
He has been identified as David Hinds of Mocha, East Bank Demerara.
Police said that about 12:30 PM, H...

Even as the opposition coalition continues to lampoon the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) prime ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, she Sunday opted to give a polite response away from the glare of the media. “I ac...

Just hours after the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) began playing up the significance of a competent, honest woman as its Prime Ministerial candidate, two political analysts do not believe Ambassador Elisabeth Harper will bring muc...

Outgoing Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds on Saturday said he would still be available to serve the Guyana government, although he would be no longer holding the number two spot in the administration.
"Off course, a life-long committment to th...

During yesterday Friday February 20, 2015, police ranks conducted a search on a building at Austin Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, during which one thousand three hundred and seventy one (1,371) 7.62 x 39 rounds, one hundred (100) .223 r...

The opposition coalition’s prime ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo on Saturday poured cold water over the decision by the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to select the Director General of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador ...

Director General of Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper is the prime ministerial candidate for the incumbent People's Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) at the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections.The announ...

In the wake of claims that the arrest of the Toshao of Moco-Moco was linked to his refusal of President Donald Ramotar’s visit to that Rupununi village, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Friday night said the alleged sexual assault was committe...

The Moco Moco Village Chief, who prevented President Donald Ramotar from visiting his Rupununi community at short notice, was Friday afternoon arrested as part of a probe into alleged rape of a minor. Police said they received a report that...

In the face of mounting speculation about the future role of Former President Bharrat Jagdeo in the administration of Guyana, he has been appointed to Chair a National Economic Council free of cost and also help craft the manifesto of his r...

A teacher and six students of a school at Mahaicony on Friday were believed dead after the vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a canal at Burma main road, police said.Investigators were told that about 3:30 PM, the bodies of a scho...

A number of students of the Georgetown School of Nursing on Friday protested their relocation to the institution’s Annexe in another part of the city, but a senior official said the move has become necessary to accommodate University of Guy...

Bandits shot two men in a mining camp in the North West District before leaving empty handed, police said.“They demanded gold but they didn’t get anything,” police spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker told Demerara Waves Online News. Police in ...

The opposition coalition plans to retain the names of the two major parties but will not be allowed to have two symbols on the ballot paper as this will be a violation of the Representation of the Peoples Act, officials said Friday. Co-Camp...

An elderly woman, who lived alone, was raped and killed at her home on the Essequibo Coast. The body of 73-year old Surspattie Ramlakhan was found in her house at Richmond Village Friday morning. Investigators told Demerara Waves Online New...